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  1. threatened speciesnoun

    Any species of organism that is vulnerable to extinction in the near future

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  1. Threatened species

    Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to extinction in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of critical depensation, a mathematical measure of biomass related to population growth rate. This quantitative metric is one method of evaluating the degree of endangerment.

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  1. Threatened species

    Threatened species are any species which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. The World Conservation Union is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree to which they are threatened: ⁕Vulnerable species ⁕Endangered species ⁕Critically endangered species Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of critical depensation, a mathematical measure of biomass related to population growth rate. This quantitative metric is one method of evaluating the degree of endangerment. Less-than-threatened categories are Near Threatened, Least Concern, and the no longer assigned category of Conservation Dependent. Species which have not been evaluated, or do not have sufficient data also are not considered "threatened" by the IUCN. Although threatened and vulnerable may be used interchangeably when discussing IUCN categories, the term threatened is generally used to refer to the three categories, while vulnerable is used to refer to the least at risk of those three categories. They may be used interchangeably in most contexts however, as all vulnerable species are threatened species; and, as the more at-risk categories of threatened species must, by definition, also qualify as vulnerable species, all threatened species may also be considered vulnerable.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of threatened species in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of threatened species in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of threatened species in a Sentence

  1. Saltanat Seitova:

    It's not right to treat animals like that, especially those in the Red List (of threatened species), to hunt them or shoot them.

  2. Robert Watson:

    If we do not act now, many of the million threatened species will become as extinct as the dodo on this tie.

  3. Robert Watson:

    If we want to leave a world for our children and grandchildren that has not been destroyed by human activity, we need to act now, if we do not act now, many of the million threatened species will become as extinct as the dodo on this tie.

  4. John Stock:

    When we have these significant gaps in tracking, we can miss how these species are interacting with their ecosystems as they are impacted by climate change, we have a responsibility to understand how endangered and threatened species are reacting.

  5. Dana Perls:

    The Florida Keys and Houston and the surrounding communities are home to some of the most diverse and threatened species in our country. Once again, the Trump administration is callously disregarding scientific experts and the will of communities to force this risky experiment through.


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